TY - CONF AU - Christophe Rigaud AU - Dimosthenis Karatzas AU - Jean-Christophe Burie AU - Jean-Marc Ogier A2 - GREC PY - 2013// TI - Speech balloon contour classification in comics BT - 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition N2 - Comic books digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding create a variety of new applications, including mobile reading and data mining. Document understanding in this domain is challenging as comics are semi-structured documents, combining semantically important graphical and textual parts. In this work we detail a novel approach for classifying speech balloon in scanned comics book pages based on their contour time series. N1 - DAG; 600.056 ID - Christophe Rigaud2013 ER -